Forbidden

43 - Yet Another Disappearance

A week after the Quidditch accident, I was sitting in my dorm when I heard a knock. I got up to get it, but nobody was there, so I shut the door.

"Ow!" someone cried as the door failed to shut because something was clearly blocking it, and that something could speak.

I jumped backwards as Harry's head appeared midair...but he had no body.

"Harry! What happened?" I cried.

He shut the door and pulled off a cloak - an invisibility cloak.

"That was rude!" he snapped.

"You were invisible!" I exclaimed.

"Yeah, and I found something out about Malfoy. Now come on."

"Bu-"

"No. You need to see this."

He pulled the cloak over us and led me out of the common room.

We rounded a corner in a far part of the castle. A few paces ahead was Draco and he was walking quickly.

Harry picked up the pace so we wouldn't lose him, and at the end of the hall, Draco had stopped.

Harry and I watched from behind a corner as the door to the Room of Requirement appeared.

When Draco entered, Harry started to walk towards it. "We can't go in there! He'll see us!" I snapped.

"Yeah we can't go together, but you can go by yourself," Harry whispered.

"What!?!" I jeered in a loud whisper as he slowly opened the door and shoved me inside.

I stumbled inside. The room was loaded with junk. It looked like a storage place.

I walked down the lines of furniture. How I would explain this to Draco, I don't know.

And then I heard it. A small weeping sound. I followed it down a few more rows of storage and then I saw a flash of platinum blonde hair. I went to duck out of sight, but I knocked over a stack of books and Draco whirled around.

"Why're you here?" he snapped.

"I was just walking and I saw the door. I thought maybe it was there for a reason," I said quickly.

"Well you need to leave," he said.

"What're you doing?" I asked, ignoring his command.

He stood in front of a cabinet. In his hand was a bird - a dead one actually.

"Nothing. Now I asked you to leave, so go. Please," he said nervously.

I walked up to him and he stepped in between the cabinet and me.

"What're you hiding?"

"Nothing, but it isn't safe for you," he murmured as more tears fell from his eyes.

"Draco, talk to me," I said, wiping his tears.

For a moment he relaxed, but the sound of the door made us both jump.

"Oh future hubby!" Vanessa's voice called.

"Hide!" he whispered.

I looked around and the only place was the open cabinet. I stepped inside and shut the door. The last thing I remember seeing before entering was Draco's pale face. It was frozen in fear and he looked as though he was going to pass out from fear.

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I couldn't stop her. Not with Vanessa so close, but Elizabeth entered the cabinet which had just killed the bird.

My hands shook and I was numb with fear as Vanessa approached me. "What's wrong?" she asked.

"No-nothing. I'm just stressed out."

She looked me up and down cooly before opening the door to the cabinet. Sure enough, Elizabeth was gone and all I could do was hope that she made it out alive.

"Well can you finish this thing? I want to get married," she whined.

"Why don't you help then?" I sneered.

Vanessa rolled her eyes. "Because I'm playing the role of the supportive fiancé."

"Whatever. Now can you leave? You're stressing me out even more," I said, desperate for her to leave so I could work on hopefully getting Elizabeth back.

"I guess so. Bye baby!"

She kissed my cheek and walked off. The second she was gone, I started to cry again.

I might've just killed Elizabeth Rosewood. The girl I love.